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The women come and go talking of you and Rimbaud,
not to your great surprise, seeing as how you’re etherized;
not needing patience to rise till the afternoon,
whether sun or gloom, writing, reading, confessing in your room
wondering if death will come too soon. You muse,
not too soon, your arms there already no Atlas need you be.
I wonder, I wonder, dare I have a cup of tea,
and would Joyce follow me, to the sea, to the sea,
to the ever breathing sea?
–Erthona
©2005
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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(05-16-2014, 04:30 AM)Erthona Wrote: .
The women come and go talking of you and Rimbaud,
not to your great surprise, seeing as how you’re etherized;
not needing patience to rise till the afternoon,
whether sun or gloom, writing, reading, confessing in your room
wondering if death will come too soon. You muse,
not too soon, your arms there already no Atlas need you be.
I wonder, I wonder, dare I have a cup of tea,
and would Joyce follow me, to the sea, to the sea,
to the ever breathing sea?
–Erthona
©2005
And well the women might, although
they could not stand that so-and-so
They and I thought that he got
His just deserts when he was shot. 
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you know, when you rip-off t.s.eliot, you're actually not so bad but it does make me think, why am I reading this flimsy shite when I could be hitting the hard stuff
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Ed, well the idea was to drown him! 
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Shem, well it is easy to write "not so bad" when you rip off Eliot. Hardly a feat to be proud of.
dale the borrower
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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(05-16-2014, 08:55 AM)Erthona Wrote: Ed, well the idea was to drown him!
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Shem, well it is easy to write "not so bad" when you rip off Eliot. Hardly a feat to be proud of.
dale the borrower
The story of the entrance of 'Rimb' was quite comical. Verlaine and another poet had rushed off to meet him at the station, but missed him. So Mrs Verlaine and her rather shrewd Mum had this gawky boy to themselves, acting like a kid who had run away from home, very gauche and rude, as teenagers are, and wearing clothes that were all wrong with trousers too short. He was described as having a ruddy peasant face. Verlaine, who had been singing his praises to all his Parnassien pals, finally comes flying in, with poet, and warmly embraces him, until it strikes him too, that it is a bit inappropriate. It is a cameo of a moment of social ineptitude, and general awkwardness, It all went down the toilet from there, of course.
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Well that's good.
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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